Wall Street Oasis
👤 Patrick Curtis (Ex-Rothschild banker, fired from PE at 24 and blackballed — he knew the opaque world finance students would pay to crack.)🌐 siteLinkedIn
The biggest finance-careers community — a free forum monetized via courses, a niche ad network, and a job board.
Will it work? · our read
Durable niche moat. 18 years of community content ranks on Google for career queries no rival can buy back. The flip side: 2M monthly visits lean heavily on that organic traffic.
01How the money moves
Free forum + SEO pulls finance students
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Crowd compounds to 2M visits/mo, 400K+ threads
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Sell courses, ads & jobs to that crowd
02The numbers
$300K/mo
revenue, self-reported
Starter Story
2M+
visits / month
founder
400K+
forum discussions
founder
Founder-stated in a 2020 Starter Story interview.
Founder-stated about $300K/mo in a 2020 Starter Story interview (self-reported) — the same article's headline says $140K/mo, so treat it as a self-report, not audited.
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Starter Story — Patrick Curtis interview (origin, revenue)Starter Story — WSO stats ($300K/mo, 2M visits)Mixergy — bootstrapping a community businessWall Street Oasis — About
Revenue is founder self-reported to Starter Story (about $300K/mo, 2020); that same piece's title says $140K/mo, so it is a self-report, not audited. Traffic and thread counts are founder-stated too. No public filing exists. We never score you.